- When dinosaurs roamed the earth - especially Sunderland
At least one sensible iguanodon may have paid a call on Wearside 130 million years agoThey are billing it as a mystery but if I was an iguanodon I would head for Sunderland like a shot.The city has lovely beaches nearby, fine stretches of river not far up the Wear and lots of greenery reaching right into its heart.There's also the Stadium of Light, a fab winter gardens complex and three very lively women MPs. Stir in the recently-retired Chris Mullin and you have an excellent place to live, work, raise a family – or just be an iguanodon.Why the dinosaur thing? For this reason. A pensioner in Sunderland was grubbing out some tree roots in his garden when he found this rum-looking bone. He did the right thing and took it to the City Museum where they identified it as a dinosaur's vertebra.The British Museum has had a look since and say that they are right; and now all the mystery stuff begins. The rocks underlying Sunderland are much too old to have contained dinosaur relics, and there is little evidence - actually none – of Iguanodons venturing this far north.The nearest they got was some 300 miles south, in East Sussex and that part of the world, according to Sylvia Humphrey, keeper of geology at Tyne and Wear archives. She says: It's really quite a puzzle as to how the bone got there. Dinosaur bones are younger than the rocks of this area, as this region is on the Permian strata, which is 250 million years old. The Iguanodons from Sussex lived 120-105 million years laterVicki Page of Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens says: It's roughly the size of a football, maybe 20cms in diameter or a little smaller, and round in shape.The gentleman who found it came into the museum with it very quietly and very discreetly two weeks ago.He said he had randomly found this bone null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Birdwatch: Wheatear
Autumn migration is very different from its spring counterpart. Although far more birds are involved – their numbers swelled by the offspring of the breeding season – they are much less easy to see. Whereas spring arrivals trumpet their presence by singing to defend a territory and attract a mate, autumn birds head off surreptitiously in the night, like burglars fleeing from the scene of a crime.Only the swallows and house martins, currently thronging the telegraph wires of my Somerset village, buck the trend. Twittering and flashing their wings as they jostle for position, they loudly announce the time of their going. Even so, it is hard to predict their actual day of departure: there are so many false alarms as they swoop off the wires for what appears to be the last time, before deciding that perhaps today isn't the day after all, and coming back to land.Another autumn migrant is more typically elusive. A few years ago my neighbour Mick showed me a photograph of a slender, buff coloured songbird perched on a roll of hay, whose identity puzzled him. It was a female wheatear, on Blackford Moor, a mile or so behind my home. To my delight, when I visited I discovered several wheatears, along with another passage migrant, the whinchat, all feeding to build up their fat reserves before undertaking the epic journey south to Africa.The other day I took a cycle ride around the moors, with my longest-standing birding companion Daniel and our children. Just over four years to the day after I first saw one here, there was a wheatear perched on the hay in the very same field.The wheatear is one of more than a dozen kinds of migrant songbird, including flycatchers, chats and warblers, which pass through our parish at this time of year. They don't hang around for long: once they ha _NULL_
- Spy's death puzzle deepens
A BRITISH spy whose body was found inside a padlocked bag at his London flat in August had been training to take on a new identity. 本体が8月に彼のロンドンのフラットで南京。袋の中に発見されたされていたトレーニング英国のスパイは、新しいIDに取る
- Dah Sing's HK$2.2b rights issues fuel talk of further expansion
A proposal by Dah Sing Financial and separately listed Dah Sing Banking to raise a combined HK$2.2 billion in two rights issues has puzzled analysts, who say the bank's capital adequacy ratio is well above industry levels.
大新金融の提案とは別に記載され大新銀行は、結合はHK $ 2200000000 2つの権利の問題で銀行の自己資本比率は、業界水準を超えていると言うアナリスト、困惑した上げます
- Hamish McRae: Have we created a commodities bubble that could derail recovery?
A puzzle: you don't trust the euro or sterling, for obvious reasons, but were it not for its reserve currency status the dollar would be pretty suspect, too. So where do you go? パズル：あなたは、明白な理由で、ユーロやポンド信頼していないが、その準備通貨のステータスは、ドルのためにされていない、かなりも容疑者となる
- Drop in violent crime puzzles US experts
Back in 1991, no fewer than 479 murders among 600,000 people were committed in Washington DC, which made the capital of the free world one of America's most dangerous places.Last year, there were 131 murders even though the population... 1991年に、60万人の間にはより少ない479殺人はアメリカの最も危険なplaces.Last年の自由世界の一つの資本を行ったワシントンDC、でコミットされなかった、131殺人はにもかかわらず、そこにあった人口...
- HKEx puzzle: what to do with HK$7b cash pile
Cash is king, but for the cash-rich Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, how to spend it is proving a challenge. Does it look for merger and acquisition opportunities or return it to investors in the form of a special dividend payment or a cut in fees?
キャッシュフローは、王のですが、現金が豊富な香港取引所とクリア、どのようにチャレンジを証明しています過ごすため
- 'Amazingly talented': Singer mourned
FAMILY and celebrity friends mourn New Zealander found beaten to death on Gold Coast, as police puzzled over motive.
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- General's fiery death a puzzle for inquest
Forensic investigations have found no evidence of explosives or inflammable liquids in the house-fire death of a powerful Zimbabwean general whose family believes he may have been murdered, state lawyers have said.Retired General... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Is Google + A Cut Above The Competition?
For the past few days I've been a more regular Google + visitor, at the same time becoming more puzzled about Google +. What's it for? Is it even a social network? The answer seems to be that Google + is evolving in to a mature forum, or multiple forums, where members curate content, exchange ideas, and engage in discussion at a rather civilised place. Does that make it a social network? I don't think so. It doesn't shriek like Facebook and it is not so reflex as Twitter. It is more Salon than Bar. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Hamish McRae: We can survive a eurozone slowdown, but only if the Chancellor gets radical
Here's a puzzle: can the UK manage to continue its, albeit scruffy, recovery this year if the eurozone slips back into recession? It is a question that the Bank of England's monetary committee will have to contemplate this week as it decides whether to approve the next bout of quantitative easing. But of course it is a much bigger issue, in that to goes to the heart of the long-term strategic issue for Britain as to what extent it should seek to decouple its economy from Europe. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- My Lord Skidelsky Doesn't Seem To Know His Economics
I've always been a little puzzled by the reputation M'Lord Skidelsky has. He has been the author of a magnificent biography of Keynes, this is true, but that's also rather a long way from being an insightful, or even competent, economist himself. 私はいつもM。。u0026#39;Lordスキデルスキーが持っている評判がいささか困惑をしてきた
- The Obamacare Bomb: Explosive or a Damp Squib?
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- How to Become James Bond
If becoming a spy was your childhood desire then the UK's intelligence services have just the brain teaser for you. GCHQ has released a little puzzle for you to solve to see if you're quite the right sort of person to join them. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Baltimore Sun sinks deep into anti-vaccination quicksand
In recent weeks, the Baltimore Sun, once an excellent newspaper, has dived headfirst into the pool of anti-vaccination pseudoscience. With two prominent opinion pieces, the Sun has given a platform to the anti-vaccine movement that they probably didn't expect, and that they certainly didn't deserve. The puzzle is, why? Who on the Sun's editorial board decided to offer their pages to the voices of fear and unreason? ここ数週間で、ボルチモアサン、かつて優秀な新聞は、反ワクチン接種疑似科学のプールに頭から飛び込んできた
- The Film Noir Gaming Simplicity Of LIMBO
It's a far cry from the Triple A games of Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto. No real-life graphics or blood and gore. This game is film noir style, simple, yet eery black and white. Think David Lynch meets Jim Jarmusch in Down by Law. It's a 2D puzzle game based on achievements about a boy who loses his sister and goes in search of her. He wakes up not knowing who he is or where he is. It's LIMBO. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Finding an elegant solution to a proposal puzzle
It is hard to imagine a place less imbued with matters of the heart than the smudgy black-and-white grid of a newspaper crossword, even if it is in the Washington Post .But for 28-year-old Corey Newman from Alexandria, just across... それは、それはワシントンポスト紙にある場合でも、しかし、アレキサンドリアから28歳のコーリーニューマンは、以下の新聞クロスワードの汚い黒と白の格子よりも心の問題に染み込んで場所を想像するのは難しいだけで全体...
- A Quant's View on the Resignations of TIAA-CREF's President, and the Co-Founder of Vanda Pharmaceuticals
Last week I wrote about Vanda Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VNDA) and TIAA-CREF. I wrote about how TIAA-CREF had a large position in Vanda Pharmaceuticals and how TIAA-CREF had placed a micro-cap stock into a large-cap portfolio. Normally I would not write about micro-cap stocks, but as it was being held in a large-cap fund at a huge firm, I felt that it was fair game to talk about VNDA. I was puzzled as to why TIAA-CREF would place a micro-cap stock into a large-cap portfolio, as the stock seemed to be of an inappropriate market-cap for the fund. As a comparison, Fidelity, TIAA-CREF’s competitor, had not placed VNDA into their large-cap portfolios. I wanted to ask TIAA-CREF, why do you have VNDA? null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- The Puzzle Of How The Colts Are Handling Peyton Manning
Last week Peyton Manning had a third surgery on his neck, putting his participation in the 2011 regular season in doubt. The impact of this injury on the Colts and the rest of the NFL are yet to be seen, but this is clearly one of the more dramatic developments in the NFL over recent years. Based on the Week One performance of the Colts and replacement Kerry Collins – making $250,000 a game – the importance of Manning (and his neck surgeon) cannot be overstated. _NULL_
- Dead herring mystery for Norway as thousands wash up on beach
Locals left scratching their heads after 20 tonnes of the dead creatures are found on beach in NordreisaNorwegians have been left puzzled at the sight of thousands of dead herring carpeting a beach in the northerly district of Nordreisa with some wondering if a predator had driven them to their death or a storm had washed them ashore.Scientists were hoping to test the fish to see if they could ascertain the cause of death. Locals had more pressing concerns: how to clean up the 20 tonnes of dead creatures before they decay.For doom-mongers, the fish were the second a sign in as many days that 2012 would live up to the apocalyptic prediction of the ancient Mayans, after hundreds of blackbirds reportedly dropped dead in Arkansas.NorwayEuropeAnimalsFishingguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- Keeping historic buildings in private hands poses a puzzle
Many of the buildings categorised by the Antiquities and Monuments Office as being appropriate for conservation (whether Grades 1, 2 or 3), are quite small or remotely located and owned and quite often also occupied by private individuals, companies or institutions.
建物は、古代記念物事務局として分類さの多くは、保全のための（かどうかの等級1、2または3）を、非常に小さなれるか、または適切では遠隔地にあると、かなり多くの場合も、個人によって占有所有する企業や機関
- Hidden gems of 2010: the games you may have missed
Observer games critics nominate the releases that deserved far greater attention this yearAncient Trader (Xbox 360, 4kids games)In what's been a really interesting year for independent games, Ancient Trader was one of the best. An addictive turn-based strategy, set on weathered parchment maps with some stunning hand-drawn art, it can be downloaded from Xbox Live's indie games service for about the cost of a pint. Bargain. Chris SchillingDeadly Premonition (Xbox 360, Rising Star Games)A dark, Lynchian tale of murder in a quiet American town, Deadly Premonition was technically flawed, but hugely ambitious and entertaining. In abrasive FBI agent Francis York Morgan, it had the year's most interesting protagonist, plus a host of memorable moments that more than compensated for its graphical shortcomings. Bizarre, but brilliant. CSNHL 11 (PS3, Xbox 360, EA)NHL 11 became a favourite non-footie sports sim this year, possibly the best since its Mega Drive glory days. With exceptional realism, from an unpredictable puck to player physics, crunching checks and improved AI, no two plays are alike – especially when breaking your stick, falling on the ice or getting tied up in fights. Arguably, the best two-player sim out there. Felix AtkinGuwange (Xbox 360, DLC, Cave)Created by cult Japanese arcade game developer Cave, Guwange was a strange and intense scrolling 2D shooter, unafraid of bewildering its audience. Set in feudal Japan, its strange majesty and intense difficulty made it well worth tracking down, especially for those unafraid of a challenge. Will FreemanVVVVVV (PC, Mac, online, Terry Cavanagh)With primitive visuals and seemingly archaic gameplay, VVVVVV was easy to miss. But this lo-fi platform-puzzle game, based on gravity manipulation, was filled wi オブザーバーゲーム評論家は、このyearAncientトレーダーは（Xbox 360では、4kidsゲーム）の独立したゲームのための非常に興味深い年が過ぎたものでは、古代のトレーダーは、最高の一つだったはるかに注目に値するのリリースを指名する
- Why birds of a feather flock together
Their displays have long proved a mystery. But, according to a new study, starlings are simple creaturesIt is one of the most striking sights of autumn. As days shorten and the weather cools, black clouds gather over Britain's skies. These dark spectacles have nothing to do with the weather, however. They are made up of thousands of starlings swirling and swooping in the air, performing aerial ballets that appear to be synchronised. Sometimes, flocks shift in shape from globes to hourglasses, thickening and thinning in the atmosphere.The behaviour of these murmurations of starlings has puzzled scientists for years. Some researchers have argued that they are created by one or two starlings who lead the rest of the birds in these strange performances. Others have suggested more intriguing causes, such as the British ornithologist Edmund Selous who claimed the birds were responding to telepathic signals from their mates. But now a Dutch scientist, Charlotte Hemelrijk, of Groningen University, in an article in the online journal PLoS ONE, has proposed a far simpler idea: that this seemingly sophisticated behaviour can be explained using only a few simple behavioural rules. And not only are these rules true for starlings, she says, they are also true for other creatures such as fish.In the case of starlings, Hemelrijk and her colleagues simply assumed that the birds are attracted to each other; that they move in the same direction as they return home to roosts after feeding; that they try to avoid colliding with each other; that they fly at the same speeds and that they bank when turning in the sky.The scientists then created computer simulations of starlings that behaved by these rules and found that these shifts in the shape of flocks that have been observed in starlings c そのディスプレイは長い謎を証明している
- $80 Billion Puzzle: The Part Of The Pentagon's Budget You Won't See
This is the week that the defense department unveils its fiscal 2013 budget request, which Pentagon policymakers have been heralding as a turning point in military spending priorities. So if you care to listen, you will be able to hear a lot about why weapons outlays are being cut, military healthcare costs are increasing, and land-based forces are losing money to sea-based forces. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- This Is An Odd Renewable Fuel
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- Chinese-made toy foam mats recalled in Europe
Two European countries have ordered a total recall of popular Chinese-made foam puzzle mats for children after tests indicated they carry dangerous levels of a carcinogenic chemical.
This has raised fresh concerns from parents over the safety of toys produced in China, the world's largest toy producer and exporter, in the lead up to the holiday season.
Belgium ordered all foam puzzle mats imported from China to be taken off the shelves on December 10, citing a health department rep ... テストは、発がん性化学物質の危険レベルを運ぶ示された後、二つのヨーロッパ諸国は、子供に人気の中国製発泡パズルマットのトータルリコールを注文しました
- Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound - in pictures
US officials are puzzled as to why the presence of a fortified, upscale building did not attract suspicion in Pakistan
米政府当局者は、強化された、高級な建物の存在は、パキスタンで疑いを誘致しなかった理由として困惑して
- Act Now slogan likely inspired by Crowded House's hit song
We were somewhat puzzled this week to come across a few Central Government Offices staff humming the tune from the 1987 hit song Don't Dream It's Over by New Zealand pop group Crowded House.
我々は、多少今週いくつかの中央政府のオフィスのスタッフは1987ヒット曲は、以上のニュージーランドポップグループクラウデッドハウスでの夢しないから曲をハミングに遭遇する困惑した
- The Rapture: ye have been warned – it's the end of the world (again)
World waits with bated breath to see what California preacher Harold Camping will say now after another elusive RaptureTS Eliot was right. This is indeed the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.There were two earthquakes in the San Francisco area last night, albeit relatively piddly ones, which classified as whimpers of sorts. But there was no fire and brimstone, no millions of Christians levitating in the air and ascending to heaven, no cataclysmic destruction that amounted to anything that could be described as a bang.And so it came to pass, brethren, that the world ended – again – and carried on regardless.Harold Camping, the 90-year-old preacher from Oakland who has made the Rapture his unique selling point in America's crowded evangelical broadcasting market, is suffering from diminishing returns. When he first predicted the world's end, in 1994, it put him on the map.When he heralded the Rapture for a second time earlier this year, on 21 May, he got pretty decent exposure from it. He raised millions in funding for his billboard and RV advertising campaign that preceded it, and managed to persuade several followers to give up their jobs and dedicate themselves to preparing to meet their maker.Professing himself to be deeply puzzled to have woken up on 22 May with body and soul intact, he then recalibrated, and found – lo ye faithful! - that there was a five-month time-lapse and the final, final ending of the world would take place on 21 October.It's not yet clear what he will say on 22 October.The good news for Camping is that at least one person still believes him – his wife. His bank balance is still very healthy, with $70m in the coffers of his Family Radio International ministry.And to be fair to him, as I write, there are still 13 hours to go be null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Hard work for the sandwich class
Zhou Xiaobu runs from one end of a table to another, grasping a piece of a puzzle she and her team are assembling as part of a leadership training exercise for McDonald's managers.
周Xiaobuは、彼女と彼女のチームは、マクドナルドの経営陣のリーダーシップの訓練の一環として、組み立てを行っているパズルのピースを把握し、別のテーブルの一方の端から実行されます
- Skull in naturalist's garden solves murder mystery
It was one of the most gruesome murder puzzles in British history that stumped detectives for over 130 years.But the riddle over the infamous slaying of Julia Martha Thomas in 1879 has finally been solved, six months after a battered... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Afghanistan's vast mineral deposits could lift it out of poverty | Eleanor Nichol
Afghanistan has rich seams of minerals, worth up to $3tn, but systems to ensure transparency and control of revenue flows must quickly be put in place in the extractive sectorFor all the column inches and hours of negotiations spent discussing Afghanistan's recent past, present and future, one of the most pressing parts of the puzzle remains largely overlooked and poorly understood. The country sits on top of vast mineral deposits, which, if properly managed, offer the best chance of lifting a generation out of poverty and weaning the country off international aid.Afghanistan houses rich seams of copper, iron, gold, lithium and rare earth deposits worth up to $3 trillion, according to the Afghan government. Unsurprisingly, the government and international community are eager to see these resources exploited. The plan is to sell off rights to access many of the country's mineral deposits over the next three years in the runup to transition in 2014 – potentially releasing a vast amount of revenue for the Afghan economy.What happens to that money will largely depend on the decisions taken by the Afghan government, its international allies and investing companies over the next three years. With the right systems in place to govern a fast-emerging extractive sector, these revenue streams could bridge the funding gap left by a cash-strapped OECD community that is looking to reduce Afghan dependence on its money post-2014.But it could just as easily go the other way. The billions of aid dollars invested over the past 10 years have not produced the intended results. As of this January, an estimated $286.4bn had been invested in Afghanistan since the invasion – that's $9,426 per head of population. Despite this spending, the country remains hugely dependent on aid, with many Afg _NULL_
- Solved puzzle reveals fabled Cambodian temple
It has taken half a century, but archaeologists in Cambodia have finally completed the renovation of an ancient Angkor temple described as the world's largest three dimensional puzzle.The restoration of the 11th-century Baphuon ruin is the result of decades of painstaking work, hampered by tropical rains and civil war, to take apart hundreds of thousands of sandstone blocks and piece them back together again. _NULL_
- Gay marriage: big win, slow progress | Dan Kennedy
When we're done celebrating New York, let's remember that only about one in ten US citizens has the right to same-sex marriageThose of us who live in Massachusetts can be excused for wondering what all the fuss is about. Same-sex marriage here has been recognised as a right under the state constitution since 2004. So, though we welcome New York to the ranks of jurisdictions where gay and lesbian couples enjoy full equality, we are also a little puzzled that things haven't moved forward more quickly than they have.Following Friday night's vote in Albany, New York, more than 11% of the US population – 11.37% – now lives in an area where same-sex marriage is a right, according to US Census data. New York, with a population of nearly 19.4 million, was a huge victory in the movement toward marriage equality. Take away New York, and the percentage drops to just a shade over 5%. Jurisdictions where gay marriage is now a right, with populations, are:• New York: 19,378,102• Massachusetts: 6,547,629• Connecticut: 3,574,097• Iowa: 3,046,355• New Hampshire: 1,316,470• Vermont: 625,741• Washington, DC: 601,723The total US population is 308,745,538.To this day, the largest setback was the passage of California's Proposition 8, which killed off that state's nascent right of gay marriage. If California's more than 37 million people were added, then the proportion of the country where gay marriage is recognised would rise to 23.4%, or nearly one quarter of the national population.According to the New York Times, the next most likely states to recognise gay marriage are Maryland and Rhode Island. That would inch us up to nearly 13.6%. Progress, yes, but slow progress. Although I don't believe the majority should hold sway over basic human rights, the fact is that 53% of Americans now fav _NULL_
- An economic puzzle Bernanke can't solve
It's a mystery that has puzzled even U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke: if the U.S. economy is growing rapidly, why isn't it creating jobs?
Friday's hotly anticipated employment report for March may muddle matters even more. Economists polled by Reuters had widely divergent views, with one looking for an increase of 400,000 jobs -- which would be the strongest in a decade -- while others thought it may show another small net decline.
The consensus expects a gain of 190,000 jobs, w ... それも、米連邦準備理事会のバーナンキ議長困惑している謎：場合には、米国経済が急速に、なぜそれがさらに問題を混乱させる可能性があります3月の金曜日の待望の雇用のレポートジョブ？作成されていないが高まっているの
- Is the FBI right to crowdsource a murder case? | Open thread
The FBI has released two pages of code found in a dead man's pockets in an attempt to catch his killerRoutinely associated with the shadowy world of espionage and surveillance, the FBI has made an uncharacteristically public plea for help in solving the mysteries of a decade。old homicide case.The body of Ricky McCormick, a 41-year-old statutory rape convict from Missouri, was found decomposing in a cornfield 30 miles from his address in 1999. While clues as to the perpetrator were negligible, within his pockets were left two coded notes that have puzzled the FBI Cryptanalysis Unit for years and may hold the key to unlocking the case.In a last-ditch attempt to decipher the code the FBI has released the two pages to the public in a crowdsourcing event they hope will lead to the capture of the murderer.Have you had a crack at the code and, if so, what progress have you made? And do you welcome the FBI's move to go public with this aspect of its investigation? Should such crowdsourced experiments be encouraged more widely?FBICrowdsourcingUnited Statesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
FBIは10年前の謎を解くための手助けが彼のkillerRoutinelyスパイと監視の闇の世界に関連付けられているが、FBIが作ってきた柄にもなく公。嘆願をキャッチしようとすると死んで男のポケットの中にあるコードの2つのページをリリースしましたリッキーマコーミック、41歳の法定強姦ミズーリ州から囚人の殺人case.The本体は、1999年に彼の住所30マイルからトウモロコシの分解が分かった
- How can African agriculture be more productive?
Better roads and irrigation would help, but there is no one silver bullet to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in AfricaOne of the first things that strike you in Katine, in north-east Uganda, as you move around the sub-county is how much land seems to be lying fallow. The area could not be described as intensively farmed. Then, of course, the plots of land on which people subsist seem tiny – not much bigger than a generous allotment. Another puzzle is that farmers rely on unpredictable rains and often lose crops to drought, yet Katine borders Lake Kyoga, a huge lake. A fifth of Uganda's landmass is covered by lakes and swamps, yet there is very little irrigation.Last week, at an event organised by Farm-Africa, a partner in the Guardian's Katine project, all of these issues came up during the course of a discussion by four experts on what stops African agriculture being more productive. This has suddenly become one of the most pressing issues in Africa; after decades of neglect, donors have got interested again, and the media is devoting pages to the subject. In part it is driven by a renewed concern about global food security: how on earth are we going to feed the doubling of population expected in the 21st century? One of the few places on earth with huge under-used potential is Africa.One of the most complex issues in almost all of Africa is land tenure. Part of the reason for the fallow land in Katine is clan ownership of land, which means that plots are shared out through agreement. It is hard to increase one's plot or amalgamate. Land tenure is a hugely controversial subject – a key reform in Uganda took 11 years to get through parliament. The danger is that the global pressure for food strengthens the hand of big commercial farmers buying up land – as has より良い道路や灌漑が、ヘルプは希望がない1つの銀の弾丸がAfricaOne Katineであなたを取る最初のものの零細農家の生活を改善するためには、北東ウガンダでは、サブ。移動するとはどのくらい土地は休。嘘のようです
- Italian researchers hope to dig up remains of the real Mona Lisa
Excavators in Florence are searching for the bones of Lisa Gherardini, thought to be the model for Leonardo's paintingItalian researchers are planning to dig up bones in a Florence convent to try to identify the remains of a Renaissance woman believed to be the model for the Mona Lisa. If successful, the research might help ascertain the identity of the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece – a mystery that has puzzled scholars and art lovers for centuries and generated countless theories.The project aims to locate the remains of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a rich silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. Tradition has long linked Gherardini to the painting, which is known in Italian as La Gioconda and in French as La Joconde. Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century artist and biographer, wrote that Leonardo painted a portrait of del Giocondo's wife.Gherardini was born in 1479. A few years ago, an amateur Italian historian said he had found a death certificate showing she died on 15 July 1542, and her final resting place was the Convent of St Ursula in central Florence. That is where the digging will begin later his month, said Silvano Vinceti, an art historian and the project leader.The project is part of a trend of employing CSI-like methods in art history, for example to find out about an artist's technique, discover details hidden in a painting or even learn about an artist's life or death. The group led by Vinceti has already reconstructed the faces of some Italian artists on the basis of their skulls, and last year it said it had identified the bones of Caravaggio and discovered a possible cause of death, 400 years after the artist died in mysterious circumstances.The Mona Lisa project uses some of the same techniques applied to the Caravaggio investigati フィレンツェの掘削は、モナリザのモデルであると信じられてルネサンスの女性の遺体を識別しようとするフィレンツェの修道院の骨掘りを計画しているレオナルドダヴィンチのpaintingItalian研究者のためのモデルがあると思われる、リサゲラルディーニの骨を捜している
- Environmental research: Nature's choreography | Editorial
Researchers have shown how the Amazon rainforest depends on the Sahara desert for half of its fresh mineral nutrientsDeserts cover a third of the world's land surface, they have a powerful role in the planetary climate machine, and they are home to 500 million people. And – as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature has been saying at the world heritage committee meeting in Brasilia, which finished last week – deserts are unique and fragile environments that are home to a remarkable array of plants and animals. The dust whipped up by storms in the Sahara or the arid highlands of Asia absorbs sunlight and darkens the skies, but at the right altitude the same dust also provides surfaces on which water vapour can nucleate as ice to fall as rain. The same dust storms have been linked to outbreaks of respiratory disease in the US and Europe, and to sudden eruptions of plant and animal disease across the distant oceans: one gram of Saharan dust carries a burden of a billion microbes, and some of these are certainly plant and animal pathogens.But the world heritage meeting also hailed one of the most remarkable discoveries of the last decade: the role of deserts as deliverers of nutrients to the rainier parts of the planet. Around 40m tons of dust is carried by prevailing winds from the Sahara to fertilise the Amazon basin each year. This is a very satisfying finding, since the extraordinary fertility of the Amazon rainforest – one of the richest and most biodiverse places on earth – has been a puzzle. Tropical rains leach nutrients from jungle soils, and the soils of the Amazon forest are notoriously poor, which is why clearance for cattle farming is such a bad idea. Biologists had calculated that the forest needed at least 50 研究者たちはどのようにアマゾンの熱帯雨林は、その新鮮なミネラルnutrientsDesertsの2分の1のサハラの砂漠に依存して示されて、世界の地表面の3分の1をカバー、彼らは惑星の気候のマシンで強力な役割をしており、彼らは500万人に家である
- Reds moving to DSI office
About 400 red shirts began moving to the office of the Department of Special Investigation after first gathering in front of the Bangkok Remand Prison this morning, police said. 約400赤シャツは今朝バンコク差し戻し刑務所の前での最初の集まりの後に特別捜査部のオフィスに移動し始め、警察は言った
- SAIC takes US$500m stake in partner firm
General Motors sold a US$500 million stake in its initial public offering to Chinese partner SAIC, cementing ties that have helped the American company boost sales in the world's largest car market.
ゼネラルモーターズは、世界最大の自動車市場ではアメリカの会社のブーストの販売を助けている関係を固める上で、中国側パートナーSAICは、その株式公開の米500000000ドルの株式を売却した
- Where the Sun Doesn't Shine
A manufacturing whiz may have solved the puzzle of a promising thin-film solar technology. 製造業の達人有望な薄膜太陽電池技術のパズルを解決する必要があります
- And speaking of free speech, check out this tie | Michael Tomasky
Click here and have a gander at the tie Cleveland Cavaliers' coach Byron Scott decided to wear to media day. He could have been confused, because looked at one way, this is one of those field-of-vision or frame-of-reference puzzles, like the famous one we all know from childhood about is-this-a-drawing-of-two-faces-in-profile-or-is-it-a-lamp. If one looks at the negative space in the tie, it could be taken for, uh, something resembling latticework. But not really. It's pretty clear what it is.I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that Scott is not sending Cleveland and America a secret message here and just didn't know what that symbol was. And here I thought every guy watched a little Military Channel and History Channel.United StatesMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
ここをクリックしてタイクリーブランドキャバリアーズのコーチして、Byron Scottさんでチラッを持って、メディアの日に着ることにした
- Twins' shooting range death a mystery
The shooting of 29-year-old twin Australian sisters at a Colorado gun range continues to puzzle investigators.Family of the pair are flying from Australia to the US, to determine which one is dead and which one survived.The... コロラド州の郡の範囲で29歳の双子のオーストラリアの姉妹の撮影は、1つは死んでいる、どの一survived.The決定するために、investigators.Familyペアの米国、オーストラリアから飛んでいるパズルを続けて...
- 3D television's early adopters: To buy or not to buy?
The principal message is: don't hurry to buy one unless you delight in getting the first version of thingsHave you bought a digital TV? Dithered over buying a high definition TV, and then wondered whether you were getting any high definition content? Felt puzzled by Blu-ray DVDs, and whether they would look better on your old TV or your HD TV? Get ready for another round of confusion as 3D TV rushes closer – beginning with the World Cup this year, a dedicated Sky Sports channel in 2011 and the Olympics in 2012.The principal message is: don't hurry to buy one unless you delight in getting the first version of things. Adam May, a producer with 3D producers and consultants Vision 3, says TV companies have started showing interest in making programmes in 3D; but the big push to sell the sets will come this Christmas.But right now, the easy way to find out if you need or want a 3D set is to look at your household bills. Is there a huge monthly payment to Sky Sports there? If so, then maybe you do want 3D because it has already started broadcasting. Otherwise, just wait: the prices are going to fall, as they do with all consumer electronics as volume, and production quality, rises.That's not the message that Sony and Samsung will want you to hear, but the introduction of any new technology for displaying a new form of content is always a chicken-and-egg challenge: why push the content if nobody can watch it? But why sell the gear if there's no content? Sky clearly sees a way to accelerate the process through sports (which clearly benefit from 3D, just as action films do; nobody is proposing to splurge on a 3D version of Lark Rise to Candleford).The best thing to do is sit on your hands until there's both content you want and a set you can afford. In the end, it's only televis 主要なメッセージです：thingsHaveでは、デジタルテレビを買ったの最初のバージョンの取得に限り、喜び一を購入する急いでいないのですか？高品位テレビの購入には、ディザしているかどうかの高精細コンテンツになっていただろうか？ブルー当惑フェルト線、およびDVDかどうかは、もっと自分の昔のテレビやHDテレビで見るか？などの3Dテレビに近いラッシュの混乱の別のラウンドの準備をしなさい - 世界大会で、今年初め、2012.The主要なメッセージは、2011年には、専用のスカイスポーツチャネルとはオリンピックです：場合を除き、喜びの1つを購入する急いでいない物事の最初のバージョンを取得
- Police puzzled by headless chooks
FAIRBANKS - Alaska State Troopers are puzzled by a gruesome discovery in the city of North Pole: 26 headless chickens carefully arranged at a coop.Police say the fly-infested carcasses found on Monday were arranged in a circular... フェアバンクス - アラスカ州の戦機は、北極点の街で陰惨な発見：26レス。慎重coop.Policeで配置されたハエがたかって死体は月曜日に円形に配置されたが言って当惑している...
- Worried investors turn to safety of gold
Alan Greenspan had his conundrum. Now, Ben Bernanke has his enigma. The behaviour of long-term interest rates had the former Federal Reserve chairman scratching his head. It's gold that puzzles the current Fed chief.
アラングリーンスパンは彼の難問があった
- No news is bad news for stock market
When it comes to China's stock market, no news is bad news.
Last week, the bears further tightened their grip on the country's A-share market as the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index suffered another steep drop to fall below the psychologically important level of 2,400 points after declining more than 25 percent this year.
Market watchers are trying hard to decipher the plunge, puzzled by the fact that the stock market suffered the worst fall in a country that has had the strongest reco ... ときは、市場株価来る中国のないニュースはニュースは悪い
- Currency swaps, regional bond market better for Asia
Asian countries should promote regional economic cooperation by increasing currency swaps and setting up a region-wide bond market to secure the economic safety of the region as policymakers are grappling with the complicated financial puzzle caused by the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, economists said on Wednesday.
Asian countries like China and South Korea are seeing more inflows of hot money, as eurozone countries are becoming less attractive for investors due to the lasting uncertaintie ... アジア諸国の通貨スワップを増やし、地域の経済の安全性を確保するために地域全体の債券市場を設定する政策は、複雑な金融パズルヨーロッパのソブリン債務危機によって引き起こさに取り組んでいるとして、地域経済協力を促進すべきである、経済学者によるとお金になる小さいとしてユーロ圏の国はuncertaintie永続的に起因する投資家が魅力的なホットアジアの流入を国が見ているようです、韓国、中国、韓国...
- Can the healthcare bill boost Labour? | Bryan Gould
Barack Obama's healthcare bill shows the right wing's failure of imagination – a fact we should recognise in our own electionIn a 50-year involvement in politics, I have often found that friendship is perfectly possible with people of very different political views from my own. Over a 20-year period as a member of the House of Commons, I often found that some of the more stimulating and amusing companions came from the ranks of those whose political views I abominated. I have often puzzled over the fact that people who are so agreeable in personal terms can hold views about society and social issues that are so unattractive. People who are kind to animals, generous to their friends, supportive of family members who need support, exhibit a breathtaking and at time cruel lack of generosity, compassion and understanding when it comes to those who are a little more distant from them in social or cultural or ethnic terms.My explanation of this apparent paradox is that people who hold rightwing views (excluding those who are just plain nasty) often suffer from a failure of imagination. Their impulses are fine and generous when they relate to people who are recognisable and close to them – my own dear parents were a case in point. But they are unable to project those commendable responses to a wider range because they are simply unable to understand that society is made up of people who are just as dear to others as their own friends and family are to them.These thoughts were prompted all over again by reports of the debate over Barack Obama's healthcare bill. For those fortunate souls who have had the good luck to live in countries (which make up the bulk of what we might have once called the civilised world) that see the provision of healthcare to all their citizens as a bas バラクオバマ氏の医療法案は、私は頻繁には友情を完全に非常に異なる政治的見解の人々と自分から可能であることが分ったの想像力の右翼の失敗 - 私たち自身のelectionIn 50を認識する必要があります実際の政治年間の関与を示しています
- Why I love the Louvre's Grande Galerie
Take a stroll through the Louvre's awe-inspiring Grande Galerie and its magnificent history paintings will make you rethink artThere are many places on Earth where art lovers feel they have to go. Cairo to see the face of King Tut, maybe, or New York's MoMa to see Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. I have no regrets about my pilgrimages to such sites. But I have to confess that the place that makes me more aware than any other of the richness, glory and mystery of art is closer to home (just a Eurostar journey away), and far more complex in its pleasures.In the Grande Galerie of the Louvre you walk along an immense hall – divided in two by a central tribune – past a cavalcade of French history paintings. What is a history painting? Well, the best way to find out is to visit this part of France's national museum. Here are paintings, many of them on a staggering scale, of great and noble, shocking and terrifying events. Survivors of a shipwreck lose their last shreds of hope as gargantuan waves bear down on their loosely slung together vessel in 。éricault's The Raft of the Medusa. Napoleon gives succour to the dying in Baron Gros's Battlefield of Eylau. As the heroic Spartans prepare to lay down their lives, their leader sits brooding alone, staring right at us, in David's great Leonidas at Thermopylae.If you think this display of French 18th- and early 19th-century masterpieces is all about blood and guts, there's sex here, too, in Delacroix's Women of Algiers and Ingres's Odalisque. In fact, there are so many surprises and puzzles among these sometimes strange, always magnificent works that you could rethink the entire nature of art on a stroll through this awe-inspiring space.The grand paintings it holds were made mostly for the Salon, the French exhibition of new art that was _NULL_
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